In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

FCCA no. 1008 and 1009 cross a bridge between San Mateo and Rio Blanco. The steel bridge underneath is an old road bridge.

A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.

Winter wonderland... Navigating through a snow covered downtown St. Mary's (compliments of winter storm Hercules), Russell-Cumberland general freight CSX Q316 passes the quiet store fronts of this... (more)

Autumn gold to winter white
Mother Nature can’t decide what season to be in as an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train descends Mullan Pass and curves over Montana Rail ... (more)

Winter wonderland this morning due to the overnight storm with an empty oil train, Canadian Pacific #609 plowing the right of way at track speed.

At dawn, a manned helper set of SD40E's pops out of the New Portage Tunnel and heads down "The Slide" on the journey back to Altoona to help another train up the mountain. This is the steepest gra... (more)

Greg Klingler greets 9824 with the Holiday Train in tow with a wave as it crosses over a portion of the Hudson River onto Rogers Island in Fort Edward southbound at 04:32.

300 meter long test train with 4 RABe 526 "Flirt" articulated lowfloor trainsets of the Südostbahn is crossing the 97 meter high Sitter viaduct near St.Gallen.

Sections of the temporary panel track used to move the 4014 closer to the mainline are seen being disassembled here in preparation for re-assembly at the rear of the locomotive. After many hours ... (more)

Osier after dark. Free of the light pollution from modern civilization, the heavens above put on a spellbinding display over the old D&RGW water tank in Osier, Colorado. Backlighting by God... (more)

Just before sunup in frosty downtown Keystone, W.Va., NS's Interstate heritage unit shoves train No. 776 up Elkhorn Grade, with locomotives in notch-8, awakening the sleeping mining community on a... (more)